Bombing of Ashraf City power station part of a conspiracy by Iran regime - Iraqi group

Monday, 11 February 2008

NCRI - Iraqi National Dialogue Front, headed by Dr. Saleh Matlaq, condemned bombing of Ashraf City water supply pumping station by the Qods Force terrorist agents of the Iranian regime in Iraq.

In its statement the Iraqi National Dialogue Front strongly condemned the bombing as a criminal action and part of a broader conspiracy against the Iranian political refugees residing in Ashraf City.

"Such measures, bombing of the Ashraf City's power station coupled with the disinformation campaign in recent weeks by the agents of the Iranian regime against the People's Mojhedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in is a sign of the plots against Iranian political refugees in Iraq", the statement added.

The incident took place at 3:30 a.m. local time on Friday. More than 300 kg of TNT was used in this bombing and as a result water pumps, installations of the station and offices were destroyed and supply of water to Ashraf City and 20,000 Iraqis living in the area were cut off.

The bombing of Ashraf City's power station followed by the assassination on February 6 of a local tribe council member, Sheikh Hamid Ziab, in charge of protection of the power station.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed that the Iranian regime in past few weeks dispatched a number of agents of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) as well as Qods Force elements from Iran and abroad to Iraq. The agents were identified as: Massoud Khodabandeh, Mostafa Mohammadi, Reza Akbari Nasab and Alireza Bashiri. The team leader for the group belonging to the Qods Force is Tabatabaie.

These rogue elements were to prepare for subsequent plots for terrorist attacks against the PMOI members residing in Ashraf City. The mullahs' embassy in Baghdad accommodated them in Al-Mansur Hotel in Baghdad and kept a constant contact with the agents. A number of MOIS and Qods Force agents are presently staying in Al-Mansur Hotel in Baghdad.

On November 8, 2007, four members of the MOIS went to Khalis directly from the Iranian regime's embassy in Baghdad and met with Abdul-Rassoul Mullah Hamid Al-Saadi (aka Abu-Heidar) head of the local office for Badr Brigade in Khalis. At the meeting there were two commanders of the hit squads identified as Abu Tabarak Al-Saedi and Khezr Mohammad Ahmad (aka Abu-Osama Khalesi). The latter was involved in a terrorist attack on a bus carrying workers to Ashraf City in May 2006.